Highland Eviction Risk: Lower , Austin

The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10. 74% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.5% against 31.5% nationally. The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The filing record is not thin: 375 evictions over 12 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2007 at 3.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Travis County average of 4.0 closely.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.